St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-15
LORD DRUMMoND's STORY.
It Ended Finally in Trinity
Churchyard in New York.

The portals of Trinity church opened
yesterday afternoon to receive the NOR
tai remains of Lord DrummOnd, heir
presumptive to the earldom of Perth
and the dukedom of Melfort. In the
little procession that followed
the casket up through the
nave to the chaneel pews
were sorrOwfuI woman, child, three
friends, some half-dozen reporters and
six or eight sightseeing, casual Specta-
tors. There were no flowers, there was
no music. The simplest services for the
dead was read by Rev. Harry Baumann,
an assistant rector, and then the eaSket
was quietly and unoStentatiouSly con-
signed to vault in the adjoining
churchyard.
George Essex M0ntifeX. Lord Drum
mond and Viscount Forth, died at st.
Luke's hospital Friday morning of con-
sumption. He was born in Scotland.
Sept. 8, 1856, son of Lord George Henry
Drummond, ViscOunt Forth, and grand
son of George Drummond, Earl of Perth
and Duke of Melfoft. His parents died
in his early infancy, and young George
Drummond was left in the care and
training of his grandmother, Hon. Mrs.
Capel, granddaughter of the Earl of
Essex.
The lady was chronic invalid and re-
quired the constant attendance of a
nurse. The young daughter of small
London tradeSman, who had eloped
with and married her fathers coach
man, was engaged for this service while
her husband was given other employ
ment. When George was fourteen
years old his grandfather died. Be
tween him and the nurse there had
been awakened stronger senti-
ment than friendship, although she
was six or seven years his senior. She
was tall and fair, of exceedingly good
form, and she did not live in harmony
with her husband. When, therefore, it
seemed that the household was about to
be broken up and the servants dis
missed. it was not difficult for her to
persuade young Viseount-or for him to
persuade her-to elope. Elope they did,
and to America.
They were very cautious about their
elopement, taking passage first by a
steamer for Canada, and afterward eX-
changing their tickets at brokers' for
Storage passages to New York. They
arrived here July 26, 1872, and for year
lived a precariOuS existence in New
York assisted little by the relatives
of the boy nobleman, who had ascer-
tanned his whereabouts and were
pleading with him to give up
the woman and return to his
home. But he was too completely in
fatuated for that, and shortly removed
with the woman to Brookhaven, Long
Island. There he did little farming,
shooting and boating for a living. A
year later, when nearly eighteen years
old, he was married to the woman by
Rev. Mr.. Cooper, of the Presbyterian
church at Br0Okhaven.
Times went hard with the young man,
and he engaged John B. Ireland to lay
his condition before his grandfather, the
earl, and plead with him for assistance.
This the earl was willing to give, but
upon conditions. The young man was
his only male descendant, and he was
anxious that he should return and
assume the position demanded by his
rank, and eventually succeed to the
title and estates of Perth and Melfort.
But he required of Lord Drummond
that he leave the woman with whom he
was living, and this the young man re-
fused to do. ~ is
In little while he secured a position
as salesman with a Broadway clothing
firm and removed to the city. Then
their first child, Malcolm, was born and
died, and little girl was born. She is
eight years old now, and the picture of
her father" About two years ago the
clothing firm failed and Lord Drum
mOnd was compelled to seek work else
where. Through the eXertlons of a
friend he secured employment in the
eountlng-room of newspaper published
in Park Row, but was subsequently put
to work in the preSs-room, where he
contracted severe cold. This he ig-
nored until it had seized upon his
lungs, and then it was too late. Con-
sumption made rapid inrOadS upon his
strength. Early this year he sought and
obtained admission to st. Luke'S hos
pital, and although he twice thereafter
attempted to do something toward the
support of himself and family he was
compelled by the disease which was
rapidly destroying him to return to the
hospital, the last time July 10, when he
took to his bed and never left it alive.
During all this time his grandfather,
return to Scotland, give up the woman
who had lured him from home, and pre-
pare himself for the position he would
have to take when death should remove
the earl, who was now past eighty years
of age. The lands of the estate were in
litigation, and the Earl of Perth was not
a wealthy man for his station, still he
was able to support the young lord in a
manner becoming his rank, but while
he remained Obdurate he would not give
him farthing. An aunt, Lady Edith
Drummond, a maid of honor to Queen
Victoria, sent Drummond quarterly
s5, and the Countess Surratt, his pater-
nal grandmother, sent him an Occa-
sional remittance, but although several
of the male members of his family were
very rich they would give him no assist
ance so long as he refused the terms
imposed by the earl. During his last
illness negotiations had been renewed,
but Lord Drummond would only relax
so far as to consent to return to Scot
land in case provision were made for the
good maintenance of the woman to
whom he was married and the child.
These were still pending when death
put an end to all his troubles.
Mrs. Drummond, who is left in abject
poverty, had not the wherewithal to
let alone pay the expenses of her huS-
bands funeral. There were no relatives
| near to assist her, and so Mr.. Ireland,
who has been Lord Drummond's at
tOrney in the negotiations with his fam
lily in Scotland, advanced money to pay
for his funeral, and allowed his remains
sepulture in the Ireland family vault in
Trinity churchyard until they shall be
otherwise disposed of by the Earl of
Perth. Mrs. Drummond is not now
the handsome woman she is said
by all who knew her to have
been up to few years ago,
None of them would have recognized in
the woman of ford viSage and dull, in
expressive countenance. in her cheap
black jersey and coarse wooden skirt,
the woman to lure an earl from his earl
dom, his family, his country and his
fair fame to a life of hardship in dishon-
orable exile. See will cling to the child,
although Lord Drummond's relatives
would willingly take her and give her
such training and support as the mother